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((Short description|1969 proposed English local government reorganisation))
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[[Image:RedcliffeMaudReportMap1969.png|thumb|right|upright=2.0|Local government in England as proposed by the report]]
The '''Redcliffe-Maud Report''' (Cmnd. 4040) was published in 1969 by the ''[[Royal Commission]] on [[Local government of England|Local Government]] in England'', under the chairmanship of [[Lord Redcliffe-Maud]]. Although the commission's proposals were broadly accepted by the Labour government, they were set aside by the Conservative government elected in 1970.

==Terms of reference and membership==
The commission was appointed on 7 June 1966, with the following terms of reference:
<blockquote>"....to consider the structure of Local Government in England, outside Greater London, in relation to its existing functions; and to make recommendations for authorities and boundaries, and for functions and their division, having regard to the size and character of areas in which these can be most effectively exercised and the need to sustain a viable system of local democracy; and to report."<ref name=gazz>((London Gazette |issue=44014 |date=7 June 1966 |pages=6597–6598  ))</ref></blockquote>

The members of the commission were Redcliffe-Maud (chairman), [[John Eveleigh Bolton]] (vice-chairman), [[Derek Senior]], [[Francis Hill|Sir James William Francis Hill]], [[Vic Feather|Victor Grayson Hardie Feather]], [[Arthur Hedley Marshall]], [[Peter Mursell]], [[J. L. Longland|John Laurence Longland]], [[Reginald Charles Wallis]], [[T. Dan Smith|Thomas Dan Smith]] and [[Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp|Dame Evelyn Adelaide Sharp]].<ref name=gazz/><ref>((cite news |title=Authorities should have freedom to decide priorities |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=12 June 1969 ))</ref>

==Report findings==
[[Image:England RedcliffeMaud Provinces.png|thumb|right|The proposed provinces of the Redcliffe-Maud Report]]
Broadly the report recommended the abolition of all existing county, [[county borough]], [[borough]], [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] and [[rural district]] councils, which had been created at the end of the 19th century, and replacing them with new [[unitary authorities]]. These new unitary authorities were largely based on major towns, which acted as regional employment, commercial, social and recreational centres and took into account local transport infrastructure and travel patterns.

There were to be 58 new unitary authorities and three metropolitan areas ([[Merseyside]]; [[Greater Manchester|South East Lancashire/North East Cheshire]] or 'Selnec'; and West Midlands), which were to be sub-divided into lower tier metropolitan districts.  These new authorities, along with [[Greater London]], were to be grouped into eight provinces, each with its own provincial council.

===Division of functions===
In arriving at their recommendations, the commissioners were guided by a number of principles which they had themselves devised. These included:
*Town and country are interdependent, therefore the separate administration of urban areas and their rural hinterlands should cease.
*"Physical environment services" should be in the hands of a single authority. Examples of these services included planning and transport. To provide these wide area services, the authority should have boundaries that reflected geographical patterns of population and movement and provided a coherent area of administration.
*"Personal services" should likewise be administered by a single council. These included education, social services, health and housing. The optimum population range over which to provide these services was 250,000 to 1,000,000.
*Wherever possible, both types of services should be in the hands of a single unitary authority.
*Areas for the new authorities should be capable of being effectively and democratically administered by a single council.

Accordingly, the different categories of council would have the following powers and responsibilities:

*'''Provincial councils''': Drawing up of strategic development plans. They were to take over the functions of the existing regional economic planning councils.
*'''Unitary area councils''': Both physical environment and personal services
*'''Metropolitan area councils''': Planning, transport and general housing policy.
*'''Metropolitan district councils''': Education and personal social services.<ref>
((cite journal |last=Wise |first=M J |date= December 1969|title=Review: The Future of Local Government in England: The Redcliffe-Maud Report |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=135 |issue=4 |pages=583–587 |doi= 10.2307/1795107|format= <!--|accessdate=28 November 2007 -->|jstor=1795107))</ref>

===Local councils===
It had originally been envisaged that parish councils should also be abolished, but the Secretary of the [[National Association of Parish Councils]] (NACP), [[Charles Arnold-Baker]], convinced the commission that they should be preserved.((Citation needed|date=December 2008))

===Derek Senior's memorandum of dissent===
The commission was nearly unanimous, with some reservations as to the exact geographic details.  One member of the commission, Derek Senior, dissented entirely from the proposals, and put forward his own in a memorandum of dissent (Cmnd. 4040-I), which was slightly larger than the report itself.  He would have preferred a two-tier system, with 35 city-regions of varying size, along with 148 districts.  These were to be further grouped into five provinces.  At a lower level, there would be 'common councils', roughly equivalent to [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] councils, which would also cover communities within large towns; special arrangements were to be made for the area surrounding [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]].  These proposals effectively ignored traditional boundaries, to a much greater extent than the Report itself did.

==Reaction==
Immediately after the report was published, the Prime Minister, [[Harold Wilson]], said that he accepted the recommendations "in principle" and committed the government to "press ahead quickly" on the legislation necessary to implement it, later clarifying that legislation would probably follow in the 1970–71 or 1971–72 parliamentary session.<ref name="Press ahead quickly">Wood (1976) p.71</ref> The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Government issued a white paper entitled "Reform of Local Government in England" ([[Command paper|Cmnd]] 4276) in February 1970, broadly accepting the recommendations of the report. The Government had however added two new metropolitan areas: West Yorkshire (with the five Bradford/Leeds/Halifax/Huddersfield/Mid-Yorkshire unitaries as districts), and South Hampshire based on the Southampton and Portsmouth unitaries, with the Isle of Wight being a separate district.<ref>((cite news |title=Action is on lines proposed by Redcliffe-Maud |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=5 February 1970 ))</ref>

Observers felt that the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], then in opposition, had no urgency in defining their position. The shadow spokesman [[Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester|Peter Walker]] did not commit himself but instead held a series of regional conferences to ascertain party grassroots opinion. Reports suggested these conferences were overwhelmingly hostile and the Conservative Party conference in 1969 passed a highly critical motion, while suggesting that some reform of local government was supported. Walker decided that a future Conservative government could not implement Redcliffe-Maud, but refused to disown the report completely.<ref name="Conservative reaction">Wood (1976) pp.74–5</ref>

The Rural District Councils Association was immediately opposed to the proposals which would see their members subsumed in much larger authorities. They started a national campaign with the slogan "Don't Vote for R.E. Mote" (with Mr R.E. Mote depicted as an insensitive bureaucrat),<ref name="R.E. Mote">Wood (1976) p.78</ref> distributing material to all their members. The slogan was used on postal franking from the affected authorities. [[Swale Rural District Council]] was forced to opt out of the campaign due to the similarity of "R.E. Mote" with the local Conservative [[prospective parliamentary candidate]] [[Roger Moate|R.D. Moate]].<ref name="Roger Moate">((cite news |title=Too near to be remote |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=6 November 1969 |page=4 ))</ref> By coincidence, Moate had moved the motion opposing Redcliffe-Maud at the Conservative Party conference.<ref name="Roger Moate2">
((cite news |title=Remote Clash (Times Diary) |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=7 November 1969 |page=10 ))</ref>

==New government==
When the Conservatives won the [[1970 United Kingdom general election|1970 general election]], they did so on a manifesto committed to a two-tier system in local government.<ref>((Cite web|title=1970 Conservative Party Manifesto|url=http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1970/1970-conservative-manifesto.shtml|access-date=2020-10-18|website=conservativemanifesto.com))</ref> In 1971 a further white paper entitled "Local Government in England: Government Proposals for Reorganisation" (Cmnd 4584) announced its intentions, which ultimately led to the [[Local Government Act 1972|1974 re-organisation]].  Although the general plan of the report was abandoned, many of the specific innovations were carried over, such as the plan to associate [[Slough]] with [[Berkshire]], and [[Bournemouth]] with [[Dorset]].

==Aftermath==
In the actual 1974 re-organisation, the three metropolitan areas became [[metropolitan county|metropolitan counties]], though their area was greatly reduced.  A further three were added, covering the [[Leeds]]/[[Bradford]] area ([[West Yorkshire]]), the [[Sheffield]]/[[Rotherham]] area ([[South Yorkshire]]) and the [[Tyneside]] area ([[Tyne and Wear]]).  The concept of authorities based around [[Bristol]] ([[County of Avon|Avon]]), and [[Teesside]] ([[Cleveland (county)|Cleveland]]) was also retained.  In most areas though, the 1974 system was far more conservative and retained more traditional boundaries.

The situation of wholly two-tier government did not last.  The county councils for the metropolitan counties were abolished in 1986 by [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s government, making the metropolitan boroughs effectively into unitary authorities.  A further set of reforms in the 1990s led to the re-establishment of many old county boroughs as unitary authorities, along with other areas.

In 2004 the Government put forward a proposal to introduce directly-elected [[regional assemblies in England|regional assemblies]] in the three [[regions of England|regions]] of [[Northern England]], should [[Northern England referendums, 2004|referendums]] produce a 'yes' vote (in the event the first region voted 'no' overwhelmingly, and the other referendums were abandoned).  The regional boundaries proposed were very similar to the three northern Redcliffe-Maud provinces.  Associated with this reform would have been a move to wholly unitary local government in the affected regions.  In the area of [[Cumbria]] and [[Lancashire]], the proposals bore a striking resemblance to the ones in the Report.

==Proposed unitary and metropolitan areas==

{| class="wikitable"
!Province
!Number
!Unitary / metropolitan area
!Metropolitan district
!Approximate extent
|-
|rowspan=5|North East
|1
|Northumberland
|
|non-metropolitan [[Northumberland]]
|-
|2
|Tyneside
|
|[[Tyne and Wear]] minus [[City of Sunderland|Sunderland]]
|-
|3
|Durham
|
|ceremonial [[County Durham]] minus [[Easington (district)|Easington]]
|-
|4
|Sunderland & East Durham
|
|[[City of Sunderland|Sunderland]] and [[Easington (district)|Easington]]
|-
|5
|Teesside
|
|former non-metropolitan county of [[Cleveland, England|Cleveland]] plus [[Whitby]] etc.
|-
|rowspan=10|Yorkshire
|6
|York
|
|non-metropolitan [[North Yorkshire]] and [[York]] minus [[Harrogate (borough)|Harrogate]], [[Craven (district)|Craven]], [[Whitby]]
|-
|7
|Bradford
|
|[[City of Bradford|Bradford]], [[Craven (district)|Craven]]
|-
|8
|Leeds
|
|[[City of Leeds|Leeds]], [[Harrogate (borough)|Harrogate]]
|-
|9
|Halifax
|
|[[Calderdale]]
|-
|10
|Huddersfield
|
|[[Kirklees (borough)|Kirklees]] minus the north-eastern area around [[Batley]] and [[Dewsbury]]
|-
|11
|Mid Yorkshire
|
|[[City of Wakefield|Wakefield]] plus bordering areas of Kirklees such as Batley and Dewsbury
|-
|12
|Sheffield & South Yorkshire
|
|[[City of Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[Rotherham (borough)|Rotherham]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley|Barnsley]] plus the [[Dronfield]] area of Derbyshire
|-
|13
|Doncaster
|
|[[Doncaster (borough)|Doncaster]]
|-
|14
|North Humberside
|
|ceremonial county of [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], small part of [[North Yorkshire]]
|-
|15
|South Humberside
|
|[[North Lincolnshire]] and [[North East Lincolnshire]]
|-
|rowspan=8|North West
|16
|Cumberland & North Westmorland
|
|[[City of Carlisle|Carlisle]], former [[Cumberland]], area around [[Appleby, Westmorland|Appleby]] in [[Westmorland]]
|-
|17
|Furness & North Lancashire
|
|[[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]], [[South Lakeland]] and [[City of Lancaster|Lancaster]]
|-
|18
|The Fylde
|
|[[Blackpool]], [[Fylde (borough)|Fylde]], [[Borough of Wyre|Wyre]]
|-
|19
|Preston-Leyland-Chorley
|
|[[City of Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], [[South Ribble]], [[Borough of Chorley|Chorley]]
|-
|20
|Blackburn
|
|Blackburn with Darwen, [[Hyndburn]], [[Ribble Valley]]
|-
|21
|Burnley
|
|[[Burnley (borough)|Burnley]], [[Borough of Pendle|Pendle]], [[Borough of Rossendale|Rossendale]]
|-
|22
|Merseyside Metropolitan Area
|
*Southport-Crosby (the districts of [[West Lancashire]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton|Sefton]], except Bootle County Borough)
*Liverpool (the district of [[Liverpool]], the western part of Knowsley and [[Bootle]] [[County Borough]])
*St Helens-Widnes (the districts of [[St Helens, Merseyside|St Helens]], [[Halton (borough)|Halton]] and the eastern part of Knowsley)
*South Merseyside (The districts of [[Wirral (borough)|Wirral]], [[Ellesmere Port and Neston]], [[Chester]] and part of [[Vale Royal]])
|[[Merseyside]], plus the districts of [[West Lancashire]], [[Halton (borough)|Halton]], [[Ellesmere Port and Neston]], [[Chester]] and part of [[Vale Royal]].
|-
|23
|Selnec Metropolitan Area
|
*Wigan-Leigh (district of [[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan|Wigan]])
*Bolton (district of [[Metropolitan Borough of Bolton|Bolton]], plus part of [[Blackburn with Darwen]]) 
*Bury-Rochdale (districts of [[Metropolitan Borough of Bury|Bury]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale|Rochdale]])
*Warrington (district of [[Borough of Warrington|Warrington]], [[Newton-le-Willows]] and part of [[Vale Royal]])
*Manchester (district of [[City of Manchester|Manchester]], district of [[City of Salford|Salford]], [[Trafford]] excluding Altrincham.)
*Oldham (district of [[Metropolitan Borough of Oldham|Oldham]])
*Altrincham-Northwich (southern part of district of [[Trafford]], [[Vale Royal]] and western part of [[Macclesfield]])
*Stockport (district of [[Metropolitan Borough of Stockport|Stockport]], eastern part of [[Macclesfield]] and adjacent areas of [[Derbyshire]])
*Ashton-Hyde (district of [[Tameside]], plus areas around [[Glossop]])
|[[Greater Manchester]], plus the northern part of [[Cheshire]].
|-
|rowspan=5|West Midlands
|24
|Stoke & North Staffordshire
|
|[[Stoke-on-Trent]], [[Newcastle-under-Lyme (borough)|Newcastle-under-Lyme]], [[Staffordshire Moorlands]], [[Borough of Stafford|Stafford]], [[East Staffordshire]], [[Congelton (borough)|Congleton]] and [[Crewe and Nantwich]]
|-
|25
|West Midlands Metropolitan Area
|
*Mid-Staffordshire ( the districts of [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]], [[Lichfield District|Lichfield]], [[Cannock Chase District|Cannock Chase]], the northern part of [[South Staffordshire]] and the area around [[Stafford]])
*Wolverhampton (as current district, plus the middle part of [[South Staffordshire]]) 
*Walsall (as current district)
*Dudley (as current district except [[Halesowen]], plus southern part of [[South Staffordshire]]
*West Bromwich-Warley (the district of [[Sandwell]] plus [[Halesowen]])
*Birmingham (as current district plus [[Solihull]])
*North Worcestershire (the districts of [[Wyre Forest (district)|Wyre Forest]], [[Bromsgrove District|Bromsgrove]], [[Borough of Redditch|Redditch]])
|[[West Midlands (county)|County of West Midlands]], excluding [[City of Coventry|Coventry]], plus [[Wyre Forest (district)|Wyre Forest]], Bromsgrove, [[Borough of Redditch|Redditch]], [[Borough of Tamworth|Tamworth]], [[Lichfield District|Litchfield]], [[South Staffordshire]], Cannock Chase and the area around [[Stafford]].
|-
|26
|Shropshire
|
|[[Shropshire]] (including [[Telford and Wrekin]])
|-
|27
|Hereford & South Worcestershire
|
|[[Herefordshire]] and southern [[Worcestershire]], excluding the districts of [[Wyre Forest (district)|Wyre Forest]], [[Bromsgrove District|Bromsgrove]] and [[Redditch]]
|-
|28
|Coventry & Warwickshire
|
|[[Warwickshire]] including [[Coventry]]
|-
|rowspan=4|East Midlands
|29
|Derby & Derbyshire
|
|[[Derbyshire]] minus  Dronfield and [[Glossop]] plus [[Burton upon Trent]]
|-
|30
|Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
|
|[[Nottinghamshire]]
|-
|31
|Leicester & Leicestershire
|
|[[Leicestershire]], and most of [[Rutland]]
|-
|32
|Lincoln and Lincolnshire
|
|non-metropolitan county except for [[South Holland, Lincolnshire|South Holland]] and the areas around [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]] and [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]]
|-
|rowspan=8|South West
|33
|Cornwall
|
|[[Cornwall]] minus [[Saltash]] and area
|-
|34
|Plymouth
|
|[[Plymouth]], the southern half of [[West Devon]], the western part of [[South Hams]] and the area around [[Saltash]] in Cornwall
|-
|35
|Exeter & Devon
|
|[[Devon]] except the southern half of [[West Devon]] and the western part of [[South Hams]]
|-
|36
|Somerset
|
|non-metropolitan county of [[Somerset]] except the area around [[Frome]]
|-
|37
|Bristol & Bath
|
|the former county of [[Avon (county)|Avon]], plus the adjacent parts of [[Wiltshire]] and the area around [[Frome]]
|-
|38
|North Gloucestershire
|
|the non-metropolitan county of [[Gloucestershire]]
|-
|39
|Wiltshire
|
|ceremonial county of [[Wiltshire]] except the northern part of [[West Wiltshire]] and the western part of [[North Wiltshire]]
|-
|40
|Bournemouth & Dorset
|
|the ceremonial county of [[Dorset]] except the area around [[Sherborne]], plus the western half of [[New Forest]]
|-
|rowspan=4|East Anglia
|41
|Peterborough – North&nbsp;Fens
|
|the districts of [[Peterborough]], [[Fenland District|Fenland]] and [[South Holland, Lincolnshire|South Holland]], plus the areas around [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]], [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]], [[Oundle]] and [[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey]]
|-
|42
|Cambridge – South&nbsp;Fens
|
|the districts of [[Cambridge]], [[East Cambridgeshire]] and [[South Cambridgeshire]], plus the areas around [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]], [[Saffron Walden]], [[Haverhill, Suffolk|Haverhill]], [[Royston, Hertfordshire|Royston]], [[Huntingdon]] and [[St Ives, Cambridgeshire|St. Ives]]
|-
|43
|Norwich & Norfolk
|
|Norfolk, except a small area to the west, plus the district of [[Waveney District|Waveney]]
|-
|44
|Ipswich, Suffolk & North East Essex
|
|[[Suffolk]] except the areas around [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]] and [[Haverhill, Suffolk|Haverhill]], plus the districts of [[Colchester (borough)|Colchester]], [[Tendring District|Tendring]] and the northern part of [[Braintree (district)|Braintree]]
|-
|rowspan=17|South East
|45
|Oxford & Oxfordshire
|
|non-metropolitan [[Oxfordshire]] minus [[Henley-on-Thames]], plus [[Brackley]]
|-
|46
|Northampton & Northamptonshire
|
|non-metropolitan [[Northamptonshire]] minus the areas around [[Brackley]] and [[Oundle]]
|-
|47
|Bedford & North Buckinghamshire
|
|[[Borough of Bedford|Bedford]] and [[Milton Keynes]], plus the areas around [[Buckingham]] and [[Ampthill]]
|-
|48
|Mid-Buckinghamshire
|
|[[Chiltern (district)|Chiltern]] and [[Wycombe (district)|Wycombe]] plus the areas around [[Aylesbury]] and [[Tring]]
|-
|49
|Luton & West Hertfordshire
|
|[[Dacorum]] except [[Tring]], [[St Albans]], [[Watford]], [[Three Rivers (district)|Three Rivers]], [[Hertsmere]] except [[Potters Bar]], [[Luton]] and [[South Bedfordshire]]
|-
|50
|East Hertfordshire
|
|[[Broxbourne (borough)|Broxbourne]], [[East Hertfordshire]], [[Welwyn Hatfield]], [[Stevenage]], [[Harlow]], [[North Hertfordshire]] except [[Royston, Hertfordshire|Royston]], the western halves of [[Epping Forest District|Epping Forest]] and [[Uttlesford]] and the areas around [[Biggleswade]] and [[Sandy, Bedfordshire|Sandy]]
|-
|51
|Essex
|
|ceremonial county of Essex minus [[Colchester]], [[Harlow]] and [[Tendring District|Tendring]], the western areas of [[Epping Forest District|Epping Forest]] and [[Uttlesford]] and the area around [[Saffron Walden]]
|-
|52
|Reading & Berkshire
|
|non-metropolitan Berkshire plus [[Henley-on-Thames|Henley]] and the southern part of [[Buckinghamshire]]
|-
|53
|West Surrey
|
|[[Borough of Spelthorne|Spelthorne]], [[Borough of Elmbridge|Elmbridge]], [[Runnymede (district)|Runnymede]], [[Surrey Heath]], [[Borough of Woking|Woking]], [[Borough of Guildford|Guildford]], [[Waverley, Surrey|Waverley]], [[Rushmoor]], [[Hart (district)|Hart]] and the northern part of [[East Hampshire]]
|-
|54
|East Surrey
|
|[[Epsom and Ewell]], [[Mole Valley]], [[Reigate and Banstead]], [[Tandridge (district)|Tandridge]] and [[Crawley]]
|-
|55
|West Kent
|
|the western half of the current ceremonial county
|-
|56
|Canterbury & East Kent
|
|the eastern half of the current ceremonial county
|-
|57
|Southampton & South Hampshire
|
|the districts of [[Southampton]], [[Eastleigh]], [[Test Valley]], the northern part of [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] and the eastern part of [[New Forest]]
|-
|58
|Portsmouth, South East Hampshire and Isle of Wight
|
|the [[Isle of Wight]], the districts of [[Fareham]], [[Gosport]], [[Portsmouth]], [[Havant]] and the southern parts of [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] and [[East Hampshire]]
|-
|59
|West Sussex
|
|[[Arun District|Arun]], [[Adur (district)|Adur]], [[Chichester (district)|Chichester]], [[Horsham District|Horsham]] and [[Worthing]]
|-
|60
|Brighton & Mid-Sussex
|
|[[Brighton and Hove]], [[Mid Sussex District|Mid Sussex]] and [[Lewes (district)|Lewes]]
|-
|61
|East Sussex
|
|[[Eastbourne]], [[Hastings]], [[Rother District|Rother]] and [[Wealden District|Wealden]]
|}

[[Greater London]] was outside the scope of the report, having been reorganised in 1965 under the [[London Government Act 1963]].

==References==
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*((cite book |title=The process of local government reform 1966–74 |last=Wood |first=Bruce |year=1976 |publisher=[[Allen and Unwin]] |location=London |isbn=0-04-350052-8))
((refend))

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